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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: How to install and build a kernel under Fedora?

From: Neil Cherry <ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:05:39 -0500

Reply-to: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

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I'm in the middle of writing a chapter on Wireless Networks
and I'm having the users recompile the kernel for NDISWrapper.
What the the best way to install the source and compile the
kernel?

Right now I'm doing:

wgetftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.14-1.1653.src.rpm

rpm -ihv kernel-2.6.14-1.1653_FC4.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bp --target=i686 kernel-2.6.spec
cd ../BUILD/kernel-2.6.14/linux-2.6.14/
make xconfig (I need 8K stacks)
make rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/
rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.14prep-1.i386.rpm
cd /boot
mkinitrd initrd-2.6.14-prep.img 2.6.14-prep

This whole process eats up 1.3G of disk space. There has to be a
better way!

Thanks

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